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COLLEAGUE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who is member of one's class or profession
Example:
he sent e-mail to his fellow hackers
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("colleague" is a kind of...):
associate (a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An associate that one works with
Synonyms:
co-worker; colleague; fellow worker; workfellow
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("colleague" is a kind of...):
associate (a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor)
Derivation:
collegial (characterized by or having authority vested equally among colleagues)
Context examples:
This work by Professor Strausfeld and his colleagues is part of a larger innovative project to better understand the organization and evolution of the brains of invertebrates.
(How mantis shrimp make sense of the world, National Science Foundation)
Because humans have never commercially harvested penguins, Polito and colleagues expected that changes in penguins' diets and populations would mirror shifts in krill availability.
(Whaling and climate change lead to 100 years of feast or famine for Antarctic penguins, National Science Foundation)
NICHD researchers and their colleagues analyzed data from the Upstate KIDS Study, originally undertaken to follow the development of children conceived after infertility treatments and born in New York State from 2008 to 2010.
(High amounts of screen time begin as early as infancy, National Institutes of Health)
Earlier studies by Harvard University researcher Sam Myers and colleagues showed that wheat, maize, rice, field peas and soybeans grown under high carbon dioxide conditions all had lower levels of protein and minerals.
(Planet-Warming Gases Make Some Food Less Nutritious, Study Says, Steve Baragona/VOA)
The study was conducted by Pauline Mendola, Ph.D., an investigator in the Epidemiology Branch at NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and colleagues.
(Persistent organic pollutants in maternal blood linked to smaller fetal size, National Institutes of Health)
In a new study, Richard Zeebe of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and colleagues offer a way to overcome the roadblock.
(Deep-sea sediments lead to new understanding of solar system, National Science Foundation)
Its data indicate wind speeds of the new cyclone average 225 mph (362 kph) - comparable to the velocity found in its six more established polar colleagues.
(NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery, NASA)
Dr. White and colleagues found that women who used hair straighteners at least every five to eight weeks were about 30% more likely to develop breast cancer.
(Permanent hair dye and straighteners may increase breast cancer risk, National Institutes of Health)
The Prime Minister’s manner was subdued, but I could see by the gleam of his eyes and the twitchings of his bony hands that he shared the excitement of his young colleague.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"But there is life upon the plateau all the same," his colleague replied in triumph.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
